NBA superstars Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash on Monday led a throng of players and celebrities offering support for Jason Collins, after the veteran center made the landmark revelation that he is gay. Collins, who played for Boston and Washington...

The United States on Monday urged North Korea to free a US citizen on “humanitarian grounds” as it sought to pin down the charges against him ahead of a planned trial by Pyongyang. The North’s official Korean Central News...

Europe’s deep-space Herschel telescope has given up the ghost — running out of coolant after a successful mission to observe the birth of stars and galaxies, the European Space Agency said Monday. “Herschel has made over 35,000...

A Mediterranean-style diet packed with fish, chicken and olive oil and low on fatty dairy products and meat may lower the risk of memory problems later in life, a large US study said on Monday. But the beneficial effects of eating a diet rich in...

The pastor chosen the lead the National Day of Prayer on Thursday at the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill believes that same-sex marriage is a Satanic plot to destroy the family. Pastor Greg Laurie, the senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship...

A bill being written by an FBI-led task force would impose fines on tech firms that resist real-time wiretapping orders, The Washington Post reported Sunday night. Sources speaking off the record reportedly told the paper that the legislation is...

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Monday said that his listeners “have a point” that liberalism does in fact kill people in “mass numbers.” In a Monday radio segment, the conservative talker asserted that...

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) is expected to sign into law a measure allowing undocumented high school graduates to pay in-state tuition rates. The Associated Press reported that Hickenlooper will sign the bill on Monday, making Colorado...

Lawmakers in the Washington House and Senate quietly passed a bill over the weekend that will re-criminalize some marijuana possession, reacting to warnings from the state’s crime lab that the current law could make it impossible to...

A federal judge with a sense of humor on Monday ruled that exotic dancers in San Antonio would have to wear bikini tops, but acknowledged that customers were seeking “an erection” of a constitutional wall with First Amendment...

Only little green men at National Press Club are dead presidents on $20,000 honorariums paid to committee members If there are extraterrestrial rewards for perseverance, the organisers of the UFO conspiracy hearings that are under way at the...

An EU-led court in Kosovo on Monday sentenced five doctors to up to eight years in prison for illegal organ harvesting and transplants. Former Kosovo health minister Ilir Rrecaj — who admitted during the trial that he knew that illegal...

A Fox News spokesperson explained Monday that conspiracy theorist Glenn Beck left the network not because he was safeguarding his spirituality, but because “he was trying to save his ass” after a massively effective advertiser...

A reporter from Alex Jones’ Infowars.com website found himself being being verbally destroyed by a resident on the streets of Boston over claims that the recent bombings had been the result of a so-called “false flag” operation...